New screen technology simulates physical buttons (video)

3. Seylan (unregistered) posted on 30 May 2011, 09:05 6 4

Its not the same as the one in the blackberry storm...This isn't resistive!

4. jroc74 posted on 30 May 2011, 09:25 2 2

Yea. resistive sucks for touch input.

8. TKFox007 posted on 30 May 2011, 11:57 6 0

The Storm wasn't resistive. It was a capacitive touch screen and the screen itself was just a giant button.

12. Thump3rDX17 posted on 30 May 2011, 14:06 0 0

both of the Storms used Capacitive touch screens. the first one used one button right behind the middle of the screen which made you have to push the whole screen down to push it from all of the right angles but the Storm 2 used a piezo electric board which used 4 buttons at each corner of the screen and didn't require you to push the screen all the way down to register an input. you could still hover over selections on the Storm like any phone with a Capacitive panel but all input was made with the buttons. this approach Kyocera is making 1-ups RIM's work by being button free and recreating the typing experience using nothing more than tactile feedback from Capacitive panels.

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11. remixfa posted on 30 May 2011, 12:39 1 0

i had a storm and it worked quite well. most people who criticized it either had a defective model (which there were a good few of) or didnt actually own it.
why take another try at it? because if done right it bridges the barrier between real keys and virtual. whoever gets it right could be sitting on a gold mine.

14. TKFox007 posted on 30 May 2011, 16:18 0 0

I had the first Storm and I enjoyed it for a while. But about after a year, the screen would almost never click or if it did, it wouldn't register.

The bad thing is, because this is a physical press down, eventually the mechanism will wear out eventually and with everyone being so text and email heavy now, people are going to be replacing these phones like crazy because they're wearing out the button under the screen.